Improvement in adjustable backs for carriage-seats



E. A. RICE,

Improvement in'Adjusiable-Back for Carriage-$eats.

No,128,171, PatentedJune1B,18?2.

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EVERETT A. RICE, OF WILMINGTON, VERMONT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,171, dated June 18,1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EVERETT A. Rrcn, of Wilmington, in the county ofWindham and in the State of Vermont, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Adjustable Backs for Buggies and Carriage-Seats;and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing andto the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of thisspecification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof an adjustable back for buggy and other carriage-seats,

as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

Inorder to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure l is a perspective view of a buggy or carriage seat with myadjustable backattached to it, and Fig. 2 is a detached view of a partof the adjustable back.

Arepresents the seat of a buggy or carriage, and provided, as is usualin no-back seats, with a rim, B, extending around the rear side andends. 0 and D represent the rails which form the back. The rail 0 is,proin the lower edge of the rim B. The rail D is also provided with twodownward-projecting bars, G G, which pass through holes or mortises madein the rail 0, as well as through the rim B and seat A. At the ends ofthis rail D are pivoted the arms J J, the front ends of which are hookedand fastened in holes 0 0, made in the upper front edges of the endpieces of the rim B. By. changing the hooked ends of the arms J J in theholes 0 e the rail D may be raised and lowered to suit. The rail 0 israised and lowered at will by the use of the spring-levers E E.

The seat .as well as the rails may be iron bound and finished in anydesired manner especially should the holes 0 e be formed in metal barsattached to the rim B.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The rail (J provided with two or more downward-projecting notchedbars, G G, which are passed through mortises in the rim B of the seatand secured by the levers E E and springs b b, substantially as setforth. 2. The rail D provided with downward-projecting bars G G, whichpass through mortises in the rail 0 and rim B of the seat A, and thearms J J which are adjusted inthe perforations e e in the rail B, allsubstantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this24th day of February, 1872.

EVERETT A. RICE. Witnesses:

HENRY (J. BOYD, J. R..BUELL.

